Category: Training, support & events
Reports from our training and events, both UWP-run and external; updates on new training we’re developing, and why.
In September, I attended Access:Given, a new one-day digital accessibility conference. This post covers the four sessions and my takeaways from an insightful event.
On 11 September 2025 Nick Daniels, Mel Batcharj and I attended the UCISA User Experience (UX) Community Day 2025 – organised by Emma Horrell and the UCISA committee. In this blog we share our reflections from the day.
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we approached manual accessibility testing and the changes we made as a result. This is part 5 of our short series on how we built the new version of Effective Digital Content. Other posts in this series are: Part […]
Content Improvement Club is our regular meetup for web publishers. This month was the first time we ran the session at Edinburgh Futures Institute, which had a great classroom space and was centrally located for people to get to. We looked at how to improve the usability of long pages to help users complete their […]
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we built the course using our chosen platform, Articulate Rise 360, and how we found the process.
We’ve been developing a new version of the Effective Digital Content online course. This post looks at how we moved on from the prototype stage and which technology options we considered.
Carrying out usability testing early on in the design process provided useful insights about how learners would interact with our content. The feedback we received led to us making various changes to improve the user experience of the course.
We’ve been developing a new version of Effective Digital Content. This post looks at how this work fits into our wider approach to supporting content design across the University.
The 15th of March marks Digital Clean-up Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about digital pollution and an opportunity to audit all data, both personal and work-related.
Since February 2024, we’ve trained more than 90 publishers in content design and have experimented with the ways we upskill University staff in content design techniques, to support them to produce good-quality, compliant online content that meets web visitors’ needs.
